Autoscaling Groups with terraform on AWS Part 3: Elastic Load Balancer and health check

Previously we set up some Apache Ignite servers in an autoscaling group. The next step is to add a Load Balancer in front of the autoscaling group.

Before any steps let’s add some environment variables to variables.tf.

variable "autoscalling_group_elb_name" {
  type = string
  default = "autoscallinggroupelb"
}

variable "elb_security_group_name" {
  type = string
  default = "elb_name"
}

First we shall add the security group for the Load Balancer.

resource "aws_security_group" "elb_security_group" {
  name = var.elb_security_group_name
  egress {
    from_port = 0
    to_port = 0
    protocol = "-1"
    cidr_blocks = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
  }
  ingress {
    from_port = 80
    to_port = 8080
    protocol = "tcp"
    cidr_blocks = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
  }
}

Then we need to retrieve the availability zones for the Load Balancer.

data "aws_availability_zones" "available" {
  state = "available"
}

Then let’s add the Load Balancer.

resource "aws_elb" "autoscalling_group_elb" {
  name = var.autoscalling_group_elb_name
  security_groups = ["${aws_security_group.elb_security_group.id}"]
  availability_zones = data.aws_availability_zones.available.names
  health_check {
    healthy_threshold = 2
    unhealthy_threshold = 2
    timeout = 3
    interval = 30
    target = "HTTP:8080/ignite?cmd=version"
  }
  listener {
    lb_port = 80
    lb_protocol = "http"
    instance_port = "8080"
    instance_protocol = "http"
  }
}

Then let’s match the Load Balancer with the autoscaling group and set the health type to ELB.

resource "aws_autoscaling_group" "autoscalling_group_config" {
  name = var.auto_scalling_group_name
  max_size = 3
  min_size = 2
  health_check_grace_period = 300
  health_check_type = "ELB"
  desired_capacity = 3
  force_delete = true
  vpc_zone_identifier = [for s in data.aws_subnet.subnet_values: s.id]
  load_balancers = ["${aws_elb.autoscalling_group_elb.name}"]

  launch_configuration = aws_launch_configuration.launch-configuration.name

  lifecycle {
    create_before_destroy = true
  }
}

As before you apply your terraform solution

> terraform apply